House Soeaker Mike Hubbard at a press conference announcing the GOP agenda for the 2014 session.Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- It might be against Alabama Republican Party rules for
candidates to accept donations from the Alabama Education Association, but the
state teachers' union gave at least $5,000 to a secretive non-profit set up by
the Alabama House Republican Caucus, tax
records show.

Those forms show that the organization accepted $204,000 in
donations from political action committees and private entities, including pharmaceutical
companies and $15,000 from the Alabama Wholesale Beer Association. That
donation was the largest.

The non-profit must only report donations greater than
$5,000 on the tax form.